A Method In It

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

Stuff like this makes me question if I’m actually passionate about anything

Link to the pdf of the tool kit

I’m saying it because cis people will never care for us on our own.

Yes, if you've been doing activism or advocacy work for a long time (or just existed as a marginalized person for a long time) it can be frustrating and tedious to hear people talk about the ways systems of oppression impact people in the dominant group, too.

Like it's true but that's not the point right now guys!

Plus, it's just depressing to think that other people won't care about people like you unless it affects them, too. That sucks.

And I get it. You're not wrong.

But here's the thing: If you want people to come to what I call a politics of solidarity --- a politics where we say "I'll stand with you even if our struggles are different because you'll stand with me and we're all in this together" --- then you have to start somewhere.

I believe so strongly and deeply that all our fates are intertwined. That there is no system that hurts only some people without unintended consequences. That there is no way to hurt one group without causing collective injury. That any system that divides us from one another hurts as all, even the people who are supposed to come out ahead.

But if you want people to believe that you have to start somewhere. You have to show them a concrete example of how their lives are made worse by a system that is supposed to hurt "other people."

Eventually, you can try to guide them to the idea that there's no such thing as "other people" actually. But you can't just hit people with that right out the gate.

So yes, tell people that there's no way to try to force trans people out of public life that won't also hurt cis people. Point out that patriarchy causes immense psychological damage to men. Explain that white supremacy is a tool of class control that hurts white people, too.